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☞ The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. “Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannæ.” Trench.
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2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
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3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] “Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.” Shak.
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4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.
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Dump (dŭmp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett.
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Coloq. Dumping car or Coloq. Dumping cart , a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.
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Dump, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
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3. That which is dumped.
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4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
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dump n. a coarse term for defecation.
Syn. -- shit.
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Dumpage (?), n. 1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.
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2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads; called in some cases tipping fee.
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dumpcart n. a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.
Syn. -- tumbrel, tumbril.
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dump cart n. (Railroads) same as dump car.
Syn. -- dumping car, dumping cart, dump car. [PJC]

dumped adj. 1. p. p. of , v. t.; as, The money was there, dumped all over the floor.
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dumper n. same as .
Syn. -- dump truck.
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Dumpiness (?), n. The state of being dumpy.
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Dumpish, a. Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. “ A . . . dumpish and sour life.” Lord Herbert.

-- Dumpishly, adv. -- Dumpishness, n.
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Dumple (?), v. t. [See .] To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [R.]
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He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.
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Dumpling (?), n. [Dimin. of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and E. dump, v. t.] A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
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Dumps (dŭmps), n. pl. a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd ; -- used mostly in the phrase “in the dumps”.
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dump truck n. a truck, usually with an open top, the carrying bopdy of which can be tilted so as to emptied its contents without handling.
Syn. -- dumper.
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Dumpy (?), a. [Compar. Dumpier (?); superl. Dumpiest.] [1. From a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From sadness.] 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
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2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd . [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Dumpy level. (Surv.) A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Coloq. Troughton level , from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Coloq. Gavatt level .
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Dumuzi prop. n. the Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.
Syn. -- Tammuz.
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Dun (dŭn), n. [See .] A mound or small hill.
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Dun, v. t. To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
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Dun (dŭn), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned (dŭnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning (dŭnnĭng).] [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. √74. See .] To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
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Hath she sent so soon to dun? Swift.
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Dun, n. 1. One who duns; a dunner.
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To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.
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2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
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Dun, a. [AS. dunn, of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.] Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
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Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont.
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Chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble.
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Coloq. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Coloq. Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.
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Dunbird (?), n. [Named from its color.] (Zoöl.) (a) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. (b) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
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Dunce (?), n. [From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase “a Duns man”. See Note below.] One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
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I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.
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☞ The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival of learning they were violently opposed to classical studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one slow at learning, a dullard.
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Duncedom (?), n. The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.
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Duncery (?), n. Dullness; stupidity.
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Duncical (?), a. Like a dunce; duncish.
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The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller.
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Duncify (?), v. t. [Dunce + -fy.] To make stupid in intellect. [R.] Bp. Warburton.
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Duncish (?), a. Somewhat like a dunce. [R.]

-- Duncishness, n. [R.]
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Dunder (?), n. [Cf. Sp. redundar to overflow.] The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies]
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The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.
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Dunderhead (?), n. [Prov. Eng. also dunderpoll, from dunder, same as thunder.] A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
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Dunder-headed, a. Thick-headed; stupid.
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Dunderpate (?), n. See .
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Dune (dūn), n. [The same word as down: cf. D. duin. See a bank of sand.] A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.]
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Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.
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Dunfish (?), n. Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
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Dung (dŭng), n. [AS. dung; akin to G. dung, dünger, OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge, MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with dung. Cf. .] The excrement of an animal. Bacon.
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Dung, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dunged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunging.] 1. To manure with dung. Dryden.
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2. (Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
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Dung, v. i. To void excrement. Swift.
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Dungaree (?), n. 1. A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim. [Written also dungari.] [India]
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2. pl. Trousers, overalls or similar work clothes made of blue denim.
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3. pl. Same as .
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dungeon (dŭnjŭn), n. [OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See , , and cf. , , , , .] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
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Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale.
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Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.
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Dungeon, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. Bp. Hall.
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Dungfork (?), n. A fork for tossing dung.
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Dunghill (?), n. 1. A heap of dung.
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2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
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He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8.
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Coloq. Dunghill fowl , a domestic fowl of common breed.
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Dungmeer (?), n. [Dung + (prob.) meer a pool.] A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.
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Dungy (?), a. Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.
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Dungyard (?), n. A yard where dung is collected.
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Dunker (?), prop. n. [G. tunken to dip.] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren.
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☞ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
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Coloq. Seventh-day Dunkers , a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.
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Dunkerque prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkirk.
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Dunkirk prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkerque.
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Dunlin (?), n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zoöl.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
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Dunnage (?), n. [Cf. a mound.] (Naut.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
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Dunner (?), n. [From to ask payment from.] One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
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Dunnish (?), a. Inclined to a dun color. Ray.
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Dunnock (?), n. [Cf. ,a.] (Zoöl.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]
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Dunny (?), a. Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.]
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My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.
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Dunt (?), n. [ .] A blow. [Obs.] R. of Glouc.
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Dunted, a. Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.]
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Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.
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Dunter (?), n. (Zoöl.) A porpoise. [Scott.]
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Coloq. Dunter goose (Zoöl.) the eider duck. J. Brand.
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Duo (?), n. [It. duo, fr. L. duo two. See .] (Mus.) A composition for two performers; a duet.

Duodecahedral (?), a., Duodecahedron (�), n. See , and .
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Duodecennial (?), a. [L. duodecennis; duodecim twelve + annus year.] Consisting of twelve years. [R.] Ash.
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Duodecimal (?), a. [L. duodecim twelve. See .] Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves. -- Duodecimally, adv.
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Duodecimal, n. 1. A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
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2. pl. (Arch.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work.
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Duodecimfid (?), a. [L. duodecim twelve + findere to cleave.] Divided into twelve parts.
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Duodecimo (?), a. [L. in duodecimo in twelfth, fr. duodecimus twelfth, fr. duodecim twelve. See .] Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.
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Duodecimo, n.; pl. Duodecimos (�). A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12°.
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Duodecuple (?), a. [L. duo two + � decuple.] Consisting of twelves. Arbuthnot.
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Duodenal (?), a. [Cf. F. duodénal.] Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
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Duodenary (?), a. [L. duodenarius, fr. duodeni twelve each: cf. F. duodénaire.] Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
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Duodenum (?), n. [NL., fr. duodeni twelve each: cf. F. duodenum. So called because its length is about twelve fingers' breadth.] (Anat.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under .
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Duograph (?), n. [L. duo two + -graph.] (Photo-engraving) A picture printed from two half-tone plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.
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Duoliteral (?), a. [L. duo two + E. literal.] Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. Stuart.
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Duomo (?), n. [It. See .] A cathedral. See , 2.
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Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet. Tennyson.
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Duotone (?), n. [L. duo two + tone.] (Photoengraving) Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.
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Duotype (?), n. [L. duo two + type.] (Photoengraving) A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.
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Dup (dŭp), v. t. [Contr. fr. do up, that is, to lift up the latch. Cf. , .] To open; as, to dup the door. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dupable (?), a. Capable of being duped.
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Dupe (dūp), n. [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf. Armor. houpérik hoopoe, a man easily deceived. Cf. also , .] One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
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Dupe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duped (dūpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Duping.] [Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See , n.] To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
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Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. Coleridge.
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Duper (dūpẽr), n. One who dupes another.
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Dupery (dūpẽr�), n. [F. duperie, fr. duper.] The act or practice of duping. [R.]
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Dupion (?), n. [F. doupion, It. doppione, fr. doppio double, L. duplus. See , and cf. .] A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
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Duple (?), a. [L. duplus. See .] Double.
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Coloq. Duple ratio (Math.), that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.
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Duplex (?), a. [L., fr. duo two + plicare to fold. See , and .] 1. Double; twofold.
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2. (Computers) organized so that data may be transmitted in two opposite directions over the same channel; -- of communications channels, such as data transfer lines between computers.
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Coloq. Duplex escapement , a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See . -- Coloq. Duplex lathe , one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Coloq. Duplex pumping engine , a steam pump in which two steam cylinders are placed side by side, one operating the valves of the other. -- Coloq. Duplex querela [L., double complaint] (Eccl. Law), a complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Coloq. Duplex telegraphy , a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Coloq. Duplex watch , one with a duplex escapement. -- Coloq. half duplex (Computers) (a) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions, but only in one direction at a time; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(a). (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer also appears on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(b). -- Coloq. full duplex , (Computers) (a) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(a). (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer does not appear on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(b).
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Duplex (?), v. t. [See , a.] (Teleg.) To arrange, as a telegraph line, so that two messages may be transmitted simultaneously; to equip with a duplex telegraphic outfit.
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duplex (?), n. [See , a.] 1. something which is duplex; -- used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units.
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2. (Biology, Genetics) a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule. See .
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duplexer (?), n. (Radio) a device which switches electronic circuitry so that a radio antenna can function as either a transmitting or receiving antenna.
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duplicability n. the quality of being reproducible.
Syn. -- reproducibility.
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duplicable duplicatable adj. capable of being duplicated.
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duplicate (?), a. [L. duplicatus, p. p. of duplicare to double, fr. duplex double, twofold. See .] Double; twofold.
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Coloq. Duplicate proportion or Coloq. Duplicate ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4.
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Duplicate, n. 1. That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
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I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple.
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2. (Law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original. Burrill.
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Duplicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duplicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Duplicating.] 1. To double; to fold; to render double.
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2. To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of. Glanvill.
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3. (Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
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duplication (?), n. [L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication.] 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
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2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter.
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Coloq. duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.
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duplicative (?), a. 1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
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2. (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. “Duplicative subdivision.” Carpenter.
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duplicature (?), n. [Cf. F. duplicature.] A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
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duplicitous adj. exhibiting duplicity{2}; deceitful; double-dealing.
Syn. -- ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, two-faced.
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duplicity (?), n.; pl. duplicities (#). [F. duplicité, L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See .] 1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
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Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.
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2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
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Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke.
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